I'm a white woman who's moved almost every year of my life since birth. As a senior citizen, I have continued moving almost every year. But I have NEVER moved into a new community and tried to make it what I thought it should be instead of growing into that community. Maybe because I've moved around so much and maybe it's because I wasn't raised to feel privileged over others. I love all cultures and strive to learn from and enjoy them. I feel it's so wrong on every level for anyone to move into a community and try to take it over. Thank you for this segment. Such an eye opener. I'm so angry right now, though. I have shared this podcast on FB. This country needs all the education we can get.
We need truth speaking education not this watered down white washed education. Because when you make a nation believe that they built a country that already had people living on it you are creating a problem. We really need CRT for all nations on this land called the divided States of Ameruka. 🤔🤔🤔
I feel the same way you do and I'm a realtor. But a lot of days I'm an angry realtor because I see it in my face every day. And like the gentleman talked about we need affordable rentals in our urban areas. I'm angry too. And I've been the last month even angrier because I didn't realize how the government has not help people to move in condos here in Chicago and in the surrounding areas suburban areas. That is an affordable property of condo. But the FHA mortgage is hardly even accepted in a condo unit here. It is crazy.
Are you adding value to the communities? The goal is not just to move in and contribute nothing. You are allowed to use your judgment and address a problem if you see one. You can have an influence on culture if it is a positive influence.
I was born and grew up in Brooklyn. My family is still there. My dad said that the banks are bowing to the investment companies and are denying loans to individuals looking for homes. They only want to sell to certain people at the highest price. Basically redlining. My former high school teacher told me that her block association got an injunction to prevent a developer from turning one of our libraries into condos. Brooklyn is a very special place. That's why we are all so proud of being from there. It's hard to explain why. You have to be from Brooklyn to really understand. I am urging all of my family members not to sell their homes.
Brooklyn is the last place you could still see the skies within the city and not have to live in Staten Island. The high rises and tall buildings are giving me anxiety. 😫
@@thereznikovs i live in and out of bronx NY. (to New england) strong community roots. everyone goes to the neighborhood bodega... meet the locals there etc.etc. or local park the growing up there obviously adds to it all.
I am a 73 year old woman, raised in lower Manhattan; moved to Brooklyn when I was 21. Fell in love with Brooklyn - rode my bike in Dumbo when it was still empty factories and all over that area ; luxuriated in the free spirited, artistic, somewhat bohemian culture of Brooklyn. I started out living in a dark apartment on Henry Street, but still loved Brooklyn. Met my husband on Orange Street in Brooklyn Heights. When we married we moved to the Ex-Lax Factory Building in Boerum Hill, which at the time was zoned as an industrial area. Grew to love Boerum Hill where we participated in a wonderful community garden. Then boom - the owner of the community garden land told all of us to leave - he built 5 town houses on the land. Then boom again - Mayor Bloomberg rezoned the area of Downtown Brooklyn and Boerum Hill to be a Professional Business and Hospitality Area. Real Estate Taxes increased by multiple digits; hugely tall skyscraper apartment buildings were erected all over Fulton Street, the area near BAM, parts of Downtown. We lived with very depressing construction sites for years - Holiday Inn and another Hotel were built near Nevins Street - Ashland Place Skyscraper obliterated the view of the Clock on the Clock tower Building. Barclay Center was built. My husband died 10 years ago - for the next 10 years I struggled to pay the maintenance on the coop in the Ex-Lax Building. When my husband & I first moved there in 1996, the building housed a lot of artists, dancers, "regular" people. Now many of the Tenants are wealthy enough to own second homes upstate or on Long Island. I finally, just this year, had to move out of Brooklyn, because as a widowed white woman who always worked for non-profit arts organizations, like The Asia Society or The Museum at FIT, I could no longer afford to live in Brooklyn. My heart is broken. I miss my favorite Bodega; I miss the big Salvation Army store on Atlantic Avenue with the most wonderful workers there. I long to be living back in Boerum Hill. So it is not just whites moving out blacks; it is also wealthier whites moving out the white middle class. And it is the City Government rezoning parts or sections of the outer boroughs to bring in more tax revenue. Thank you for this excellent series which has helped me understand the causes for the bitter pain I feel to not be living any longer in my beloved Borough of Brooklyn!!! Take the A Train!!!
My husband’s family had been in Brooklyn for over a hundred years. He’s of German and Irish descent and tells me that it’s a “different kind of white people” who have gentrified Brooklyn. He too feels bad that he couldn’t go back even if he wanted to 😔 Wish you all the best ❤
At this point, he needs his own show; not just a segment. So pleased with the way Roy, and the other correspondents, have been able to grow through The Daily Show under Trevor's leadership.
This is an excellent conversation about gentrification. I posted it on my Facebook page and shared it with a senator in Florida. Thank you, very educational.
That’s CHICAGO’s west side. I saw it coming. I left Chicago because this senior couldn’t get a reduction in her 118 year old house property tax bill because of it being in South Lakeview. When developers have CHA in their grasp low income housing was rarely developed. It was my hometown but when you see that only money talks it’s time to walk away
In Florida they build cheap housing in places they want the poor to move and increase prices in the neighborhood they want the poor to move out of and hence gentrify the area.
@@gothicyid they did and continue to that in CHICAGO getting rid of people of color, poor and elderly via raising taxes, taxing plastic containers etc. etc. forcing them OUT
The BEST Beyond the Scenes EVER! From the colony of Puerto Rico, where it's occuring at lightening speed while pockets of communities resist. Just superb content.
Thank you for this show. I love the insight it provides. (Not just this episode, all of the episodes.) Roy is the perfect host. Keep doing what you are doing.
I just learned something new listening to this Podcast. I thought Bodegas were little restaurants that made ethnic foods. I didn't realize they served as neighborhood grocery stores. I did know that chain grocery stores in neighborhoods where many of the residents get food stamps are much more expensive than neighborhoods where their residents don't get food stamps. (Sort of like overcharging patients with Medicare & Medicaid vs Private health insurance.) The tenement housing in Bedford-Stuyvesant was originally built to house returning WWII Vets & their families. All you had to do was put your name on the list for housing & as more of a need was shown, more housing was built. That's how my Parents got their 1st apt. When our family expanded, we moved to a larger apt in the Boulevard tenement houses. Later, my Great Uncle, who was an architect & contractor, built 2 story brownstones (catty-corner to our tenement house), & we moved in there. We moved within the same neighborhood, just across the street. AND, everyone knew everyone, we were a real community that included all races, religions, cultures, etc. That, in itself, was different in BKLYN because when the 1st settlers came to NYC, they had little areas of their own... Little Italy, Chinatown, Jewish areas, etc., but their children moved & spread out from those areas & established diversified communities. Personally, I like living in a more diversified community. Unfortunately, however, the attitudes of those community members have changed since I was young, & living in BKLYN. We were taught that we NEVER had to agree with anyone, but we ALWAYS had to respect everyone. Other peoples' values & views were held as strongly as we held ours, & even if we didn't follow the same norms, we must always hold dear their importance to each of us. Mutual Respect, oh how I miss Mutual Respect.
i love this so much. im thinking it's a lead generation magnet for the main show but it can't be pulling all that much of a profit for a mass audience. how insightful and easy to absorb is this segment. really makes me feel like TDS cares about actually educating VS cracking jokes/rolling their eyes at the news. thanks you guys
Has this segment of the Daily Show been nominated for an Emmy? Not that it needs that nod. This show and the team are doing the work and is appreciated. Thank you!
Excellent segment. I grew up in Bed Stuy when it wasn't popular. I recently visited my area and it's unrecognizable. The culture is certainly disappearing. I moved to Fort Greene 20 years ago and it's happening again unfortunately. It would be great if we could all co-exist and celebrate our differences and cultures.
I moved to NY in 2009, my dad lives in Bedstuy. I was so different back in 09. I moved into his first floor in 2017, and from even then to now Bedstuy is almost unrecognizable from what it was.
This production captures the essence of The Daily Show! Great job addressing a real issue in a meaningful and educationally solid manner. Thanks! I feel I am a better person for watching. Give them a raise!
I love me some Ron. He is amazing this is a great subject to explore and you guys did it lovely. 🎉 I’m from the BX and I understand 100% what the feeling is like not to want my neighborhood to change that much. Thank you all
I can understand your sadness. I am poor, an ex-convict, living in Phoenix, so I literally have no relevance, but I would really dedicate time and effort if something I would do could help. Brooklyn the name has a flavor that comes from the community in the streets, man. Jordana, I really admire you for not selling and seeing that guy Tommy makes me want to live there. 😉😍😘 I totally understand the enticement of the money, but at a certain point, you just want to keep your home. Too bad the neighborhood went out from underneath him. This is a great piece, you guys. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank. Jay-z. And the Brooklyn nets. ONCE THE NETS MOVED TO BROOKLYN ON FLATBUSH AND ATLANTIC AVE. THEY WERE COMING EAST TO EAST FLATBUSH. .....ALL THE YUPPIES ARE GETTING KICKED OUT OF MIDTOWN AND GUESS WHERE THEY ARE MOVING TO. BROOKLYN REALLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO CHOICE. THEY'RE GETTING KICKED OUT OF MIDTOWN
This was a very valuable podcast although not everyone is black or white and not everyone is rich or poor. But everyone needs to hear this because everyone lives in a community and everyone needs to be on board for the sake of community.
Loved this topic and it is very close to my heart. If you get an opportunity look into what happened to the congregational home for the aged in Brooklyn, NY on Linden boulevard. Was once on the list of historic places and then torn down for the tallest luxury high rise in the middle of Brooklyn, NY.
Ron and Jordana this is such great content! Wonderful guest for gentrification which is definitely happening on a national scale! Applauding and binge watching! ♥️
My ancestry on my moms side goes all the way back to those 1st dastardly Englishmen to arrive at the islands of NYC w/the 1st Dutch Settlers in the late 1500's. Then on my dad's side, it's literally the complete opposite; Lakota Sioux, who go back close to 20K years. My point is that I've got real clout as a Brooklynite, & I've also been homeless now since the beginning of the pandemic; almost 3 years. I'm disabled & the pandemic destroyed my delicate living situation & now I'm fairly sure I'll never get into another apartment again, despite the NY State Constitution defining housing as a basic right for New Yorkers. I live out of a storage locker. Gentrification is a circular plague, that's happened in NYC multiple times now. 1st NYC becomes uncool, & then all the rich white people flee to the suburbs. During NYC's 1st exodus in the 1800's, the rich folk just went off & built other towns. Next, work becomes harder to find in the city & a lot of people lose the jobs they had catering to the rich white folks, but eventually something amazing happens & you start to see a large population of artists (actors/musicians/painters, writers, etc) living in the city, along side highly skilled trades people, and of course the native population of the city that was always too poor to abandon it. Now, with all those boring rich white ppl gone, & w/the city full of artists & real people, they start throwing some seriously epic parties, & then they build some clubs to keep the party going & make a few bucks, & then companies are formed to exploit the environment & create entertainment for profit; built on the backs of all those talented people & workers that are grounded in love, family, & fun. Then suddenly everyone wants to live like that, & people start moving back to the city. This has happened before, in 3 distinct major periods over NYC's short history, the most recent, starting in the late 1990's, & it will keep happening until we finally elect some politicians that will do something about the housing shortage, & ban Airbnb because they have made the situation much worse. The city also got rid of EVERY SINGLE tenement building, so now younger & older single men, who are often vilified in society but kept around to do all the labor for everyone, literally have nowhere to live. Nothing will every change unless drastic action is taken, & it's not just Brooklyn. The rich eat the poor in this country.
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It’s not only on your country tho, it’s like that almost all over the word ! I’m from Paris, France and it’s almost the same story, the rich eat the poor absolutely everywhere
Artists make a place cool. Then rich people want to be near the cool thing, but make things so expensive artists have to move to another dump and start all over. It's a very parasitic relationship.
@@Militantreturns Booker Is in Newark. Too hood? Did you not listen at all to what the topic is about? I guess just like Brooklyn was "too hood". Move to the Hamptons then 🤷🏽♀️ and stay out.
Excellent discussion, Roy!!! You’re obviously much more than a “pretty face” 😅 this scenario applies to communities everywhere across the country!!!!! Please, more talk like this on social media!!!! Mahalo nui loa 🙏🏾😑😮☮️
I deeply hope Brooklyn doesnt get the Atlanta issue. We have gentrification in waves every 10 years. The affluent move into our neighborhoods, push the poor and the culture out, then get bored and abandon the neighborhood for another, dropping the housing prices, that the low income move back into. Over and over and over. I hope something can be done for other cities cause this cycle is just a fact of life in Atlanta.
This! I lived in Atlanta a few years ago and the struggle for affordable housing was real even then! Colorado too has been having a massive gentrification problem for the last decade and it gets worse every year!
MechakittenX, what you are describing is not gentrification. Gentrification is when the values go up. Investments are made in the area. The area would not be abandoned after such investments. The property values remain high in gentrification. I'm not sure what you call what's going on in Atlanta, the way you describe it doesn't make sense. People don't get bored with an area and leave it in worse situation. When people move into an area usually there's an investment going into the area. Housing is an issue everywhere. The coasts are where it's the most expensive. Some places it's really inexpensive. But they're probably the places most people don't want to live.
@@therealdeal3672 It does happen though. I can't speak on Atlanta but to say people don't get bored and leave, they do. Every single major city in America that I've visited is segregated. I've been to around 32 states. Either it's West v East or North v South but it's always minorities on one side, affluent whites on the other and it flips in many cities as the other person alluded to. In Louisville, KY currently the West End is predominantly black and poor, the East End is predominantly white and much better off. Not 10 years ago but certainly 50 years ago it was reversed here. East End was poor and West was better off. All it takes is one or two businesses to leave the neighborhood and others will follow suit. Then opportunities dry up and the neighborhood goes back to struggling.
@@ejyounggun08 Los Angeles has many very integrated areas. There are definitely pockets that are somewhat segregated. But I could name 10 areas around Los Angeles off the top of my head that are extremely integrated. And when people buy a house here they keep it. There's no such thing as getting bored with your home in Los Angeles unless you're upsizing or downsizing. But homes are not easy to secure so people that I know have always held their homes over their lives.
@@therealdeal3672 I get that but you're speaking of home owners and renters and how they don't just up and leave. They do when corporate entities come in and buy up their homes. Regardless I was speaking about businesses coming into neighborhoods, gentrifying them, and leaving. It does happen. And I guarantee LA hasn't always been how it is. It may be 'integrated' a bit but East LA still exists and still gets a 'cholo' rep to outsiders.
This is one of the most insightful (topics) discussions based on the subject of "sense of community", focused on the fact that members matter as a group. Building a sense of community is the only way forward - social connection is key to a community's successful growth and durability.
I am from Chicago. I'm a realtor. This is such a great segment here. Because this is happening all over the world especially in the larger Urban cities. They just said that they were going to turn land that used to be Urban housing into a ball field. Now first they were going to put housing there affordable housing now the city hall has said no we're going to turn it into a field to play ball. This is happening everywhere and it's terrible too. We need to hold the government accountable. Another problem that I'm having here in Chicago is condos not taking FHA buyers. It's terrible out here for black people and low income people who can't afford to purchase them a house. It is terrible out here. Affordable housing here in Chicago should be in the range of $125 to maybe $250,000 to purchase a house. To me that's affordable housing in this city but we hardly have anything like that here. And all of the the land that they took public housing they're putting up other things on the lots. It's terrible!
Excellent I am from Queens but have lots of friends in Brooklyn, my church is in Brooklyn. This is totally true what’s going on, a friend recently posted Facebook “ he hates the skyline in Brooklyn now it’s so different.
This is so informative and interesting! Thank you so much . This is the first time I have watched this segment! It is fantastic! I live in Hawai’i and the “gentrification” of our whole state has been happening since the 1800’s! Hawaiians can’t afford to live on their own islands. The same thing has happened in Santa Fe, New Mexico where I used to live before moving to Hawai’i. Native Spanish and Pueblo Indian locals have been pushed out and are vilified by new comers who have no knowledge or respect for the local culture. It is a universal issue ! People who don’t respect the local culture and think they are entitled to move anywhere they can afford and have the right to impose their “culture” onto their new home. Great analysis of the overall issues that face all our communities! Thank You / Mahalo!
I made some decisions when I was first starting to work. I chose to never own a personal vehicle, & I chose to be a renter not a buyer. These turned out to be my best choices. I either rode a bus, bike, or train. I also joined an advocacy group called Tennants Together.
As a Brooklynite who's down the street from Ron I'm deeply moved by how the housing conditions like many community issues here are now Vouge. Prime time -Daily Show!!
Love this conversation. Jordana hit an interesting nail: while gentrification isn’t necessarily a race (compare to Manayunk, PA, and many first tier suburbs throughout the country) it is an economic issue. The race issue is within the economic issue, losing financial footing due to multiple systemic dynamics, 12% loss in housing is enormous. Involvement in planning is vital and those who’ve been busy with other issues haven’t learned city nor financial planning, and ending up reacting rather than acting forward. People are distracted or delayed instead of growing and evolving and thinking forward.
Exactly. My Cousin lives in Williamsburg, in a rent-controlled apt. She was forced out of that apt due to increased costs, I believe they made her bldg into homeowner-bought condos. Fortunately, she was able to find an apt in a bldg a few blocks away but just having to move, after being in the same apt all her life (60+ yrs), is ridiculous. Also, my Niece & her BF lived in an apt on Park Ave. They rented & were forced out because they too became homeowner-bought condos. As it was, they were paying $4,000/mth rent. There needs to be better land distribution. The only types are residential & business. That needs to be expanded to include % of residential rentals vs. ownership. That would definitely help cap some of the housing crunches. Not everyone can afford or wants to be a homeowner; I'm the latter. I live in another state & my rental is 73% of my income & I'm on SSA. That's ridiculous. My Governor capped rental increases to no more than 7% plus inflation annually... which translates to a 15% total rent renewal increase for me- ugh.
@@dee_dee_place Yes, developers are opportunists, and some create their opportunities. We also must realize that the world, and therefore our cities, have become extremely more populated, just the nature of the world we live in. So, realizing this is part of planning for the future of our cities, and ourselves.
There should be no such thing as rentals! If an individual (or family) is residing in a structure, longer than a few months, the money that they pay should be the mortgage payment ONLY. No more getting rich by getting in between the working person and their housing. It's absolutely ridiculous. I know that if an open mind is applied, any solutions that are considered would be an improvement. That is not enough. The entire system needs to be dismantled. That means protest in place. Wherever you live, you own it. Wherever you work, that's your business. We will discover that the value lies with us. They do not want us to know that. 👊🏽👊🏻👊🏿
This is an excellent discussion and very educational. I have lived in a diverse townhome comminity for years and am an introvert, so I don't get out and mingle much, unlike my extrovert husband. Especially since COVID because I'm home more, I have begun to recognize the culture we have developed here in the townhomes. While we don't have block-parties or anything like that, there is a sense of belonging and looking out for each other, which I find comforting.
Let’s be clear, the young man in the Bronx is NOT in a food desert. That is my neighborhood. There are supermarkets. If you google grocery stores, you’ll get all the markets. If you google supermarkets, you’ll get the supermarkets in walking distance. HE SHOULD’VE ASKED HIS NEIGHBORS
It depends on where you live in the Bronx. Some places specifically in the south bronx or the west side don't have access to grocery stores near them and some stores shouldn't even be considered one considering the quality of the food, and dilapidated store conditions.
I grew up in Philly, our row block had a different 1st gen immigrant family in every house, and growing up playing with all their children and then being invited in for sleep overs or dinner I got to learn by the age of 5 about Haitian food, Puerto Rican music, The many different Indian beliefs, a down south country family that moved from trailer in tenn to our block, Italians, Greeks, I mean my Dad taught me early on when I watched him work on cars with the dads on the block or work on computers for families on the block that there was no color and that it was important to be respectful when entering their homes. When I moved to NYC I lived in a shoebox in Manhattan with no toilet or shower I interned at a big dance studio and used their bathroom and shower. But I always found myself ending up sleeping at a friends house in Brooklyn. This was 2006. I FELL IN LOVE WITH BROOKLYN! It reminded me SO much of growing up in Philly with block parties on a different block every summer, sitting on the stoop just talking to people that walk by. The bodega owners knowing every person by name and knowing how you want your cheesesteak before you take a second step in that deli.. THIS IS A WAY OF LIFE!!
I'm really glad to know that this isn't just happening in one part of the US. My mother down in Florida is having people left and right calling, texting, and coming by trying to get her to sell her house. In a way, it's a little scary. My brother and I have even gotten calls and texts, like wth
Thanks for having Ron and addressing the dynamics of neighborhood with Jordana, highlighting the issue of Neighborhood as a basic need and human right.
Excellent! I'm from Detroit . Gentrification is everywhere.. Buying up property on the riverfront.. pushing those homeowners to the suburbs or deeper in the city. Housing that regular folks can no longer afford. Great episode
Local governments are a major culprit in awarding incentives to developers to build basically non-affordable housing in black & brown communities. Gentrification gets a lot of assistance in displacing indigenous families and the people buying these properties are mostly higher income whites with a sprinkling of POC. These newcomers often demonstrate no interest whatsoever in the never-ending or already existing issues in the community unless it directly impacts them. In a working-class area, grassroots organizations have a limited number of volunteers who are constantly organizing and working on EVERY ISSUE in these communities. They need to be better funded, educated and supported on how to navigate governmental entities to help them protect what little parts of their community they still own!
I’m a white woman who ,after a divorce, came back home with my 3kids and moved into a Cape Verdian housing project. Bay Village- and it WAS a VILLAGE ! Sounds like a description of Brooklyn- we all knew each other , babysat each other’s kids and were there for each other no matter what. I’ll miss those 14 years of the 60’s/ 70’s until I’m gone. I married a Cape Verdean man (41 years) and we bought a house. I still wish we could have stayed. I felt this podcast to the bone. No other neighborhood could be the same. There are so many problems that need concrete solutions- but we need more than ideas. Too many wrongs. Let’s make it right !
I moved to Brooklyn in 1980 (from Florida). I moved in in the middle of the night and when I woke up in the morning I realized I was the only white person in town! For the first time in my life I was the minority! I loved it!
I wasnt born in Brooklyn but I lived there for 10 years and had to move a little over two years ago. I am still fighting homesickness. Brooklyn is THE best boro. The sense of community was a big factor, on top of the inclusivity of people of color. Im sorry this is happening to the natives of Brooklyn. I miss bodegas sooooo much, and the neighbors that would do cookouts, the tenants just hangin around instead of being cooped up in their apts. You don’t get that in Boston.
As I said above, I too have been pushed out of my home repeatedly. I too moved here from elsewhere (Texas) in the '90s, but Brooklyn is my adopted home these 30 years. I remain here for the very reasons you cite--a sense of community, with each block its own small town. The hipsters are tearing us apart here.
@@Militantreturns BTW, the second time I was forced to move, after I got priced out of Williamsburg, occurred when the Barkley Center went up two blocks away. So I'm no fan of the Nets.
My Sicilian Grandparents bought homes in Brooklyn, 1930's to 1960's. my Aunt, my grandmother's sister lived in Brooklyn until she and her husband died, they raised my father. Crazy that people are being pushed out now.
Thank you for this. I felt some hope for the future (seeing that there are caring smart people advocating for change) in a subject that I have been feeling hopeless on lately. I am disabled and therefore will rent on a fixed and small income for the rest of my life, and I am wondering how as rent prices are drastically increasing. A family member left Brooklyn in June 2022, and out of curiosity they looked up the listing of the apartment that they had just left and the rent was 75% more that they had been paying.
Being Native American, we can relate to our African American community. On our "Reservations", where we were placed. We cannot "own" a particular parcel of land on these Reservations by the Government, we can only apply for a "Home site lease". We don't have many options for building a permanent home on these leases.
Trevor The daily show I’m sad that you’re leaving the show.This topic is very emotional but right on point I love everybody on panel speaking the truth that’s one thing about the daily show your speak the truth .💯💯💯✌🏾☝🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾.
I don't know where to start on these issues but Mrs.Hemingway and Mr. Shiffman's insight touched on every topic that can revitalize our neighborhoods in NYC in the best way possible. I'm a Bronx boy and have live through it all in the 70's and 90's and a senior now with a little different take on a different gentrification, where low-income housing is brought to a well-established neighborhood and has brought down the price of homes in the area, crime and drugs have risen where there was little to no crime, and this becomes a burden to those who have invested in this community, I would like to know your take on this as this is the other side of the coin where hard working Americans such as myself have had to face. Love you guys and your views and would like nothing better than to invite you to my home for lunch and take a tour of my neighborhood.
I’m so sad to hear this about my hometown. While I moved away decades ago, I will ALWAYS be a “Brooklyn Girl”. It is my dream to go back and make it home again someday. I loved growing up there and all that I experienced living in the borough. Please, please Brooklyn don’t ever change.
Great discussion! I love the topic and learnt so much from this discussion. In the future I would love to see a so-called Hispanic from these communities involved in the discussion.
Yup! We always had block parties!!!! We had the pizza place on our block and a Chinese food place, my Mom was the manager of the laundry matt!!! All of that is gone!!
I've seen this all my life, from Montreal to Brooklyn and beyond. The artists and the dancers are attracted to the funky old neighborhoods with reasonable rents and as the years go by the fixer-uppers with more means are coming in to gentrify. The shoemaker and the tobacconist become coffee bars and patisseries and sushi spots..
@@kevinm.1565 You can do both...smh... You can recognize that that guy is brain dead while still trying to improve the community and eliminate food deserts.
@@kevinm.1565 New York city, and specifically Brooklyn has those things. But the authenticity about Brooklyn has always been about "neighborhood." When you want to go grocery shopping you can travel and do that, but if you want to just run out and get something quick (e.g. eggs, butter or even pizza, you can literally "walk" to the corner and get it. A lot of people only have the experience of coming from gated communities or an HOA property, and have no clue about life in a bustling city with a plethora of small businesses.
Sadly it’s happening in my area. Worcester Ma Boston is bleeding into worcester and just pushing us all out and we can’t afford it here anymore and I’ve lived here since I was 3 months old. It’s heartbreaking .
17:25 I did some work for a property developer and I always thought that I should have that tattooed on my forehead. They, sincerely, think they're just smarter than the ex-homeowners and are helping with the housing deficit. (as if selling a house for 3x what they paid for was of any help) Trying to explain that they're the problem doesn't, they can't see it.
I'm originally from Astoria Queens, this happened to us. We were building a better community and before anybody realized it everyone who rented was priced out. Families that lived there for generations were pushed out. The people that moved in are awful. Spoiled brats who looked down on us. It was disgusting.
@@Militantreturns first off Astoria is in Queens, Park Avenue is in Manhattan, so you don't know what you're talking about. Second long island city was a mess, does that mean that people who lived there for generations should lose their homes to a bunch of spoiled brats? Don't talk about my home like you know anything.
I'm a white 72 year old.I grew up in a lower middle class neighborhood. My parents purchased a 4200 sq foot house in 1959 for $9,000 and sold it in 1968 for $14,000. Our home is now valued at $1,600,000. There is no way we could afford that house if we wanted it today.
I'm a white woman who's moved almost every year of my life since birth. As a senior citizen, I have continued moving almost every year. But I have NEVER moved into a new community and tried to make it what I thought it should be instead of growing into that community. Maybe because I've moved around so much and maybe it's because I wasn't raised to feel privileged over others. I love all cultures and strive to learn from and enjoy them. I feel it's so wrong on every level for anyone to move into a community and try to take it over. Thank you for this segment. Such an eye opener. I'm so angry right now, though. I have shared this podcast on FB. This country needs all the education we can get.
We need truth speaking education not this watered down white washed education. Because when you make a nation believe that they built a country that already had people living on it you are creating a problem. We really need CRT for all nations on this land called the divided States of Ameruka. 🤔🤔🤔
Thank you!!
Lady ,thank you for your attitude and your willingness to learn from others.
Please teach some of your white friends.
I feel the same way you do and I'm a realtor. But a lot of days I'm an angry realtor because I see it in my face every day. And like the gentleman talked about we need affordable rentals in our urban areas. I'm angry too. And I've been the last month even angrier because I didn't realize how the government has not help people to move in condos here in Chicago and in the surrounding areas suburban areas. That is an affordable property of condo. But the FHA mortgage is hardly even accepted in a condo unit here. It is crazy.
Are you adding value to the communities? The goal is not just to move in and contribute nothing. You are allowed to use your judgment and address a problem if you see one. You can have an influence on culture if it is a positive influence.
I was born and grew up in Brooklyn. My family is still there. My dad said that the banks are bowing to the investment companies and are denying loans to individuals looking for homes. They only want to sell to certain people at the highest price. Basically redlining. My former high school teacher told me that her block association got an injunction to prevent a developer from turning one of our libraries into condos.
Brooklyn is a very special place. That's why we are all so proud of being from there. It's hard to explain why. You have to be from Brooklyn to really understand. I am urging all of my family members not to sell their homes.
Brooklyn is the last place you could still see the skies within the city and not have to live in Staten Island.
The high rises and tall buildings are giving me anxiety. 😫
Yes. Brooklyn is a very special place. I am glad I was born there.
Mind me asking what is so special about Brooklyn !?
@@thereznikovs i live in and out of bronx NY. (to New england) strong community roots. everyone goes to the neighborhood bodega... meet the locals there etc.etc. or local park the growing up there obviously adds to it all.
I am frustrated by the way Jordana pronounces the word frustrating.
I am a 73 year old woman, raised in lower Manhattan; moved to Brooklyn when I was 21. Fell in love with Brooklyn - rode my bike in Dumbo when it was still empty factories and all over that area ; luxuriated in the free spirited, artistic, somewhat bohemian culture of Brooklyn. I started out living in a dark apartment on Henry Street, but still loved Brooklyn. Met my husband on Orange Street in Brooklyn Heights. When we married we moved to the Ex-Lax Factory Building in Boerum Hill, which at the time was zoned as an industrial area. Grew to love Boerum Hill where we participated in a wonderful community garden. Then boom - the owner of the community garden land told all of us to leave - he built 5 town houses on the land. Then boom again - Mayor Bloomberg rezoned the area of Downtown Brooklyn and Boerum Hill to be a Professional Business and Hospitality Area. Real Estate Taxes increased by multiple digits; hugely tall skyscraper apartment buildings were erected all over Fulton Street, the area near BAM, parts of Downtown. We lived with very depressing construction sites for years - Holiday Inn and another Hotel were built near Nevins Street - Ashland Place Skyscraper obliterated the view of the Clock on the Clock tower Building. Barclay Center was built. My husband died 10 years ago - for the next 10 years I struggled to pay the maintenance on the coop in the Ex-Lax Building. When my husband & I first moved there in 1996, the building housed a lot of artists, dancers, "regular" people. Now many of the Tenants are wealthy enough to own second homes upstate or on Long Island. I finally, just this year, had to move out of Brooklyn, because as a widowed white woman who always worked for non-profit arts organizations, like The Asia Society or The Museum at FIT, I could no longer afford to live in Brooklyn. My heart is broken. I miss my favorite Bodega; I miss the big Salvation Army store on Atlantic Avenue with the most wonderful workers there. I long to be living back in Boerum Hill. So it is not just whites moving out blacks; it is also wealthier whites moving out the white middle class. And it is the City Government rezoning parts or sections of the outer boroughs to bring in more tax revenue. Thank you for this excellent series which has helped me understand the causes for the bitter pain I feel to not be living any longer in my beloved Borough of Brooklyn!!! Take the A Train!!!
"While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come at all." ~ Paul Newman
My husband’s family had been in Brooklyn for over a hundred years. He’s of German and Irish descent and tells me that it’s a “different kind of white people” who have gentrified Brooklyn. He too feels bad that he couldn’t go back even if he wanted to 😔 Wish you all the best ❤
Love this segment hope you let Roy do this as long as he wants
At this point, he needs his own show; not just a segment. So pleased with the way Roy, and the other correspondents, have been able to grow through The Daily Show under Trevor's leadership.
I genuinely love Beyond the Scenes. Please never go away!
This is an excellent conversation about gentrification. I posted it on my Facebook page and shared it with a senator in Florida. Thank you, very educational.
I remember as a child watching a movie call Batteries Not Included with my dad which shade a light on gentrification.
That’s CHICAGO’s west side. I saw it coming. I left Chicago because this senior couldn’t get a reduction in her 118 year old house property tax bill because of it being in South Lakeview.
When developers have CHA in their grasp low income housing was rarely developed. It was my hometown but when you see that only money talks it’s time to walk away
In Florida they build cheap housing in places they want the poor to move and increase prices in the neighborhood they want the poor to move out of and hence gentrify the area.
@@gothicyid they did and continue to that in CHICAGO getting rid of people of color, poor and elderly via raising taxes, taxing plastic containers etc. etc. forcing them OUT
The BEST Beyond the Scenes EVER! From the colony of Puerto Rico, where it's occuring at lightening speed while pockets of communities resist. Just superb content.
Gentrification is just another word for Colonization
Thank you for this show. I love the insight it provides. (Not just this episode, all of the episodes.) Roy is the perfect host. Keep doing what you are doing.
Roy! You’re doing a really great job. Keep these segments coming!
I just learned something new listening to this Podcast. I thought Bodegas were little restaurants that made ethnic foods. I didn't realize they served as neighborhood grocery stores. I did know that chain grocery stores in neighborhoods where many of the residents get food stamps are much more expensive than neighborhoods where their residents don't get food stamps. (Sort of like overcharging patients with Medicare & Medicaid vs Private health insurance.)
The tenement housing in Bedford-Stuyvesant was originally built to house returning WWII Vets & their families. All you had to do was put your name on the list for housing & as more of a need was shown, more housing was built. That's how my Parents got their 1st apt. When our family expanded, we moved to a larger apt in the Boulevard tenement houses. Later, my Great Uncle, who was an architect & contractor, built 2 story brownstones (catty-corner to our tenement house), & we moved in there. We moved within the same neighborhood, just across the street. AND, everyone knew everyone, we were a real community that included all races, religions, cultures, etc. That, in itself, was different in BKLYN because when the 1st settlers came to NYC, they had little areas of their own... Little Italy, Chinatown, Jewish areas, etc., but their children moved & spread out from those areas & established diversified communities. Personally, I like living in a more diversified community. Unfortunately, however, the attitudes of those community members have changed since I was young, & living in BKLYN. We were taught that we NEVER had to agree with anyone, but we ALWAYS had to respect everyone. Other peoples' values & views were held as strongly as we held ours, & even if we didn't follow the same norms, we must always hold dear their importance to each of us. Mutual Respect, oh how I miss Mutual Respect.
Very few people use bodegas as a mood market. Most of the people that do that are drug addicts and they eat cheap carbs like cup noodles.
Thank you for sharing Dee Dee!
i love this so much. im thinking it's a lead generation magnet for the main show but it can't be pulling all that much of a profit for a mass audience. how insightful and easy to absorb is this segment. really makes me feel like TDS cares about actually educating VS cracking jokes/rolling their eyes at the news. thanks you guys
Has this segment of the Daily Show been nominated for an Emmy? Not that it needs that nod. This show and the team are doing the work and is appreciated. Thank you!
What a great discussion! A lot of this would translate in any community. Thank you so much for this. 💖
Excellent segment. I grew up in Bed Stuy when it wasn't popular.
I recently visited my area and it's unrecognizable. The culture is certainly disappearing. I moved to Fort Greene 20 years ago and it's happening again unfortunately. It would be great if we could all co-exist and celebrate our differences and cultures.
My parents fled Bed Study to Woodside Queens and then certain folks came and tore it up! We all need to do better and be real. It's class not color.
@@purpledancerbmw5279 REALLY
I moved to NY in 2009, my dad lives in Bedstuy. I was so different back in 09. I moved into his first floor in 2017, and from even then to now Bedstuy is almost unrecognizable from what it was.
@@k29king1 Oh, that's amazing that things have changed so much in only five years.....hard...
It's called neighborhood expansions. The people in other neighborhoods ran out of space and expanded into bed stuy
This production captures the essence of The Daily Show! Great job addressing a real issue in a meaningful and educationally solid manner. Thanks! I feel I am a better person for watching. Give them a raise!
I love me some Ron. He is amazing this is a great subject to explore and you guys did it lovely. 🎉 I’m from the BX and I understand 100% what the feeling is like not to want my neighborhood to change that much. Thank you all
Thank you for this “Behind the Scenes”!!
I can understand your sadness. I am poor, an ex-convict, living in Phoenix, so I literally have no relevance, but I would really dedicate time and effort if something I would do could help. Brooklyn the name has a flavor that comes from the community in the streets, man. Jordana, I really admire you for not selling and seeing that guy Tommy makes me want to live there. 😉😍😘 I totally understand the enticement of the money, but at a certain point, you just want to keep your home. Too bad the neighborhood went out from underneath him. This is a great piece, you guys. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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This was loving and hope your best days comes fast and far. ✅💯💪🏾🤗
You are relevant ❤
Just walking up and down Flatbush Ave is a trip been in Flatbush for 35 years, born and raised in Harlem... I'm in tears
Thank. Jay-z. And the Brooklyn nets. ONCE THE NETS MOVED TO BROOKLYN ON FLATBUSH AND ATLANTIC AVE. THEY WERE COMING EAST TO EAST FLATBUSH. .....ALL THE YUPPIES ARE GETTING KICKED OUT OF MIDTOWN AND GUESS WHERE THEY ARE MOVING TO. BROOKLYN
REALLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO CHOICE. THEY'RE GETTING KICKED OUT OF MIDTOWN
This was a very valuable podcast although not everyone is black or white and not everyone is rich or poor. But everyone needs to hear this because everyone lives in a community and everyone needs to be on board for the sake of community.
Love Shiffman & Jordana so much! What an amazing podcast.
Loved this topic and it is very close to my heart. If you get an opportunity look into what happened to the congregational home for the aged in Brooklyn, NY on Linden boulevard. Was once on the list of historic places and then torn down for the tallest luxury high rise in the middle of Brooklyn, NY.
Ron and Jordana this is such great content! Wonderful guest for gentrification which is definitely happening on a national scale! Applauding and binge watching! ♥️
My ancestry on my moms side goes all the way back to those 1st dastardly Englishmen to arrive at the islands of NYC w/the 1st Dutch Settlers in the late 1500's. Then on my dad's side, it's literally the complete opposite; Lakota Sioux, who go back close to 20K years. My point is that I've got real clout as a Brooklynite, & I've also been homeless now since the beginning of the pandemic; almost 3 years. I'm disabled & the pandemic destroyed my delicate living situation & now I'm fairly sure I'll never get into another apartment again, despite the NY State Constitution defining housing as a basic right for New Yorkers. I live out of a storage locker.
Gentrification is a circular plague, that's happened in NYC multiple times now. 1st NYC becomes uncool, & then all the rich white people flee to the suburbs. During NYC's 1st exodus in the 1800's, the rich folk just went off & built other towns. Next, work becomes harder to find in the city & a lot of people lose the jobs they had catering to the rich white folks, but eventually something amazing happens & you start to see a large population of artists (actors/musicians/painters, writers, etc) living in the city, along side highly skilled trades people, and of course the native population of the city that was always too poor to abandon it. Now, with all those boring rich white ppl gone, & w/the city full of artists & real people, they start throwing some seriously epic parties, & then they build some clubs to keep the party going & make a few bucks, & then companies are formed to exploit the environment & create entertainment for profit; built on the backs of all those talented people & workers that are grounded in love, family, & fun.
Then suddenly everyone wants to live like that, & people start moving back to the city. This has happened before, in 3 distinct major periods over NYC's short history, the most recent, starting in the late 1990's, & it will keep happening until we finally elect some politicians that will do something about the housing shortage, & ban Airbnb because they have made the situation much worse. The city also got rid of EVERY SINGLE tenement building, so now younger & older single men, who are often vilified in society but kept around to do all the labor for everyone, literally have nowhere to live. Nothing will every change unless drastic action is taken, & it's not just Brooklyn. The rich eat the poor in this country.
It’s not only on your country tho, it’s like that almost all over the word ! I’m from Paris, France and it’s almost the same story, the rich eat the poor absolutely everywhere
Artists make a place cool. Then rich people want to be near the cool thing, but make things so expensive artists have to move to another dump and start all over. It's a very parasitic relationship.
Excellent and comprehensive synopsis!
corporations are the devil
this corrupt government is owned
@Monsieur Tarzan Yeah, I think that was the reasoning. They're bloodline goes back pretty far.
I’m so happy to see the topic of this podcast! 👏🏽
Thank you speaking about this! They did the same to Jersey City and Hoboken
So sad 😥😥
Jersey city. Was. To hood people like corey booker. Made that happen
@@Militantreturns Booker Is in Newark. Too hood? Did you not listen at all to what the topic is about? I guess just like Brooklyn was "too hood". Move to the Hamptons then 🤷🏽♀️ and stay out.
@@NatureWins22 im. Lying btw you probably never been to the Hamptons a day in your life. Stop it
@@Militantreturns no just 13 other better countries.
Excellent discussion, Roy!!! You’re obviously much more than a “pretty face” 😅 this scenario applies to communities everywhere across the country!!!!! Please, more talk like this on social media!!!! Mahalo nui loa 🙏🏾😑😮☮️
Such a great segment. I grew up in Brooklyn. I see the increase gentrification every time I visit. It’s really sad to see this happening
I deeply hope Brooklyn doesnt get the Atlanta issue. We have gentrification in waves every 10 years. The affluent move into our neighborhoods, push the poor and the culture out, then get bored and abandon the neighborhood for another, dropping the housing prices, that the low income move back into. Over and over and over. I hope something can be done for other cities cause this cycle is just a fact of life in Atlanta.
This! I lived in Atlanta a few years ago and the struggle for affordable housing was real even then! Colorado too has been having a massive gentrification problem for the last decade and it gets worse every year!
MechakittenX, what you are describing is not gentrification. Gentrification is when the values go up. Investments are made in the area. The area would not be abandoned after such investments. The property values remain high in gentrification. I'm not sure what you call what's going on in Atlanta, the way you describe it doesn't make sense. People don't get bored with an area and leave it in worse situation. When people move into an area usually there's an investment going into the area. Housing is an issue everywhere. The coasts are where it's the most expensive. Some places it's really inexpensive. But they're probably the places most people don't want to live.
@@therealdeal3672 It does happen though. I can't speak on Atlanta but to say people don't get bored and leave, they do. Every single major city in America that I've visited is segregated. I've been to around 32 states. Either it's West v East or North v South but it's always minorities on one side, affluent whites on the other and it flips in many cities as the other person alluded to. In Louisville, KY currently the West End is predominantly black and poor, the East End is predominantly white and much better off. Not 10 years ago but certainly 50 years ago it was reversed here. East End was poor and West was better off. All it takes is one or two businesses to leave the neighborhood and others will follow suit. Then opportunities dry up and the neighborhood goes back to struggling.
@@ejyounggun08 Los Angeles has many very integrated areas. There are definitely pockets that are somewhat segregated. But I could name 10 areas around Los Angeles off the top of my head that are extremely integrated. And when people buy a house here they keep it. There's no such thing as getting bored with your home in Los Angeles unless you're upsizing or downsizing. But homes are not easy to secure so people that I know have always held their homes over their lives.
@@therealdeal3672 I get that but you're speaking of home owners and renters and how they don't just up and leave. They do when corporate entities come in and buy up their homes. Regardless I was speaking about businesses coming into neighborhoods, gentrifying them, and leaving. It does happen. And I guarantee LA hasn't always been how it is. It may be 'integrated' a bit but East LA still exists and still gets a 'cholo' rep to outsiders.
Great conversation.. this is happening all over the US.
Such a great discussion. Thank you for talking about this topic!
This is one of the most insightful (topics) discussions based on the subject of "sense of community", focused on the fact that members matter as a group. Building a sense of community is the only way forward - social connection is key to a community's successful growth and durability.
I am from Chicago. I'm a realtor. This is such a great segment here. Because this is happening all over the world especially in the larger Urban cities. They just said that they were going to turn land that used to be Urban housing into a ball field. Now first they were going to put housing there affordable housing now the city hall has said no we're going to turn it into a field to play ball. This is happening everywhere and it's terrible too. We need to hold the government accountable. Another problem that I'm having here in Chicago is condos not taking FHA buyers. It's terrible out here for black people and low income people who can't afford to purchase them a house. It is terrible out here. Affordable housing here in Chicago should be in the range of $125 to maybe $250,000 to purchase a house. To me that's affordable housing in this city but we hardly have anything like that here. And all of the the land that they took public housing they're putting up other things on the lots. It's terrible!
Excellent I am from Queens but have lots of friends in Brooklyn, my church is in Brooklyn. This is totally true what’s going on, a friend recently posted Facebook “ he hates the skyline in Brooklyn now it’s so different.
Very insightful!!
This is so informative and interesting! Thank you so much . This is the first time I have watched this segment! It is fantastic! I live in Hawai’i and the “gentrification” of our whole state has been happening since the 1800’s! Hawaiians can’t afford to live on their own islands.
The same thing has happened in Santa Fe, New Mexico where I used to live before moving to Hawai’i. Native Spanish and Pueblo Indian locals have been pushed out and are vilified by new comers who have no knowledge or respect for the local culture. It is a universal issue ! People who don’t respect the local culture and think they are entitled to move anywhere they can afford and have the right to impose their “culture” onto their new home.
Great analysis of the overall issues that face all our communities! Thank You / Mahalo!
Am so happy that this discussion is going on. Am a victim of harassment every day. Phone calls and visits from people ever day.
Fantastic and important conversation. Thank you!
Thank you for this, I learned a lot.
I made some decisions when I was first starting to work. I chose to never own a personal vehicle, & I chose to be a renter not a buyer. These turned out to be my best choices. I either rode a bus, bike, or train. I also joined an advocacy group called Tennants Together.
Love this show!!!
People need a place to live! It shouldn’t be like this!
Thanks Jordonna and Ron. I really enjoyed learning what can be done to improve this situation.
Great show, very educational, thanks 🫡
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS! This is so important ♥
Wow! I so loved this podcast, it was so enlightening. I
As a Brooklynite who's down the street from Ron I'm deeply moved by how the housing conditions like many community issues here are now Vouge. Prime time -Daily Show!!
Love this conversation. Jordana hit an interesting nail: while gentrification isn’t necessarily a race (compare to Manayunk, PA, and many first tier suburbs throughout the country) it is an economic issue. The race issue is within the economic issue, losing financial footing due to multiple systemic dynamics, 12% loss in housing is enormous. Involvement in planning is vital and those who’ve been busy with other issues haven’t learned city nor financial planning, and ending up reacting rather than acting forward. People are distracted or delayed instead of growing and evolving and thinking forward.
Exactly. My Cousin lives in Williamsburg, in a rent-controlled apt. She was forced out of that apt due to increased costs, I believe they made her bldg into homeowner-bought condos. Fortunately, she was able to find an apt in a bldg a few blocks away but just having to move, after being in the same apt all her life (60+ yrs), is ridiculous.
Also, my Niece & her BF lived in an apt on Park Ave. They rented & were forced out because they too became homeowner-bought condos. As it was, they were paying $4,000/mth rent.
There needs to be better land distribution. The only types are residential & business. That needs to be expanded to include % of residential rentals vs. ownership. That would definitely help cap some of the housing crunches. Not everyone can afford or wants to be a homeowner; I'm the latter. I live in another state & my rental is 73% of my income & I'm on SSA. That's ridiculous. My Governor capped rental increases to no more than 7% plus inflation annually... which translates to a 15% total rent renewal increase for me- ugh.
@@dee_dee_place Yes, developers are opportunists, and some create their opportunities. We also must realize that the world, and therefore our cities, have become extremely more populated, just the nature of the world we live in. So, realizing this is part of planning for the future of our cities, and ourselves.
There should be no such thing as rentals! If an individual (or family) is residing in a structure, longer than a few months, the money that they pay should be the mortgage payment ONLY. No more getting rich by getting in between the working person and their housing. It's absolutely ridiculous. I know that if an open mind is applied, any solutions that are considered would be an improvement. That is not enough. The entire system needs to be dismantled. That means protest in place. Wherever you live, you own it. Wherever you work, that's your business. We will discover that the value lies with us. They do not want us to know that. 👊🏽👊🏻👊🏿
@@dee_dee_place Why not move somewhere your rent costs will be lower?
Yup because it is happening in Parts of Sunset park too
Very educational and informative. Thank you!
This is an excellent discussion and very educational. I have lived in a diverse townhome comminity for years and am an introvert, so I don't get out and mingle much, unlike my extrovert husband. Especially since COVID because I'm home more, I have begun to recognize the culture we have developed here in the townhomes. While we don't have block-parties or anything like that, there is a sense of belonging and looking out for each other, which I find comforting.
Let’s be clear, the young man in the Bronx is NOT in a food desert. That is my neighborhood. There are supermarkets. If you google grocery stores, you’ll get all the markets. If you google supermarkets, you’ll get the supermarkets in walking distance. HE SHOULD’VE ASKED HIS NEIGHBORS
And unfortunately that's the point, folks move into these neighborhoods and don't want to connect with the people who already live there.
@@danirayye I would’ve told him where the 3-4 supermarkets are and how to google properly… anyone would’ve.
@@danirayye Correct !
It depends on where you live in the Bronx. Some places specifically in the south bronx or the west side don't have access to grocery stores near them and some stores shouldn't even be considered one considering the quality of the food, and dilapidated store conditions.
Ask neighbors? Most of them are not doing that. 🤣🤣🤣
Great stuff. Thank you for this podcast.
I grew up in Philly, our row block had a different 1st gen immigrant family in every house, and growing up playing with all their children and then being invited in for sleep overs or dinner I got to learn by the age of 5 about Haitian food, Puerto Rican music, The many different Indian beliefs, a down south country family that moved from trailer in tenn to our block, Italians, Greeks, I mean my Dad taught me early on when I watched him work on cars with the dads on the block or work on computers for families on the block that there was no color and that it was important to be respectful when entering their homes.
When I moved to NYC I lived in a shoebox in Manhattan with no toilet or shower I interned at a big dance studio and used their bathroom and shower. But I always found myself ending up sleeping at a friends house in Brooklyn. This was 2006. I FELL IN LOVE WITH BROOKLYN!
It reminded me SO much of growing up in Philly with block parties on a different block every summer, sitting on the stoop just talking to people that walk by. The bodega owners knowing every person by name and knowing how you want your cheesesteak before you take a second step in that deli.. THIS IS A WAY OF LIFE!!
I'm really glad to know that this isn't just happening in one part of the US. My mother down in Florida is having people left and right calling, texting, and coming by trying to get her to sell her house. In a way, it's a little scary. My brother and I have even gotten calls and texts, like wth
Same but in Philly. But I think that has more to do with home prices these days
brilliant- thank you!!
Thanks for having Ron and addressing the dynamics of neighborhood with Jordana, highlighting the issue of Neighborhood as a basic need and human right.
Excellent! I'm from Detroit . Gentrification is everywhere.. Buying up property on the riverfront.. pushing those homeowners to the suburbs or deeper in the city. Housing that regular folks can no longer afford. Great episode
Thank you for this... very informative
Thank you guys for the education.✌❤
Well done. I am in San Jose, CA. I feel like we got growth but the culture stayed in tact, for the most part. But the cost of living is outrageous.
I grew up in San Jose, then moved out of the country for decade. When I came back, it was wildly different.
Local governments are a major culprit in awarding incentives to developers to build basically non-affordable housing in black & brown communities. Gentrification gets a lot of assistance in displacing indigenous families and the people buying these properties are mostly higher income whites with a sprinkling of POC. These newcomers often demonstrate no interest whatsoever in the never-ending or already existing issues in the community unless it directly impacts them. In a working-class area, grassroots organizations have a limited number of volunteers who are constantly organizing and working on EVERY ISSUE in these communities. They need to be better funded, educated and supported on how to navigate governmental entities to help them protect what little parts of their community they still own!
I’m a white woman who ,after a divorce, came back home with my 3kids and moved into a Cape Verdian housing project. Bay Village- and it WAS a VILLAGE ! Sounds like a description of Brooklyn- we all knew each other , babysat each other’s kids and were there for each other no matter what. I’ll miss those 14 years of the 60’s/ 70’s until I’m gone. I married a Cape Verdean man (41 years) and we bought a house. I still wish we could have stayed. I felt this podcast to the bone. No other neighborhood could be the same. There are so many problems that need concrete solutions- but we need more than ideas. Too many wrongs. Let’s make it right !
This is an excellent conversation about gentrification 👏👏👀👀👍👍
I moved to Brooklyn in 1980 (from Florida). I moved in in the middle of the night and when I woke up in the morning I realized I was the only white person in town! For the first time in my life I was the minority! I loved it!
Thank you for this. Really important discussion.
I wasnt born in Brooklyn but I lived there for 10 years and had to move a little over two years ago. I am still fighting homesickness. Brooklyn is THE best boro. The sense of community was a big factor, on top of the inclusivity of people of color. Im sorry this is happening to the natives of Brooklyn. I miss bodegas sooooo much, and the neighbors that would do cookouts, the tenants just hangin around instead of being cooped up in their apts. You don’t get that in Boston.
As I said above, I too have been pushed out of my home repeatedly. I too moved here from elsewhere (Texas) in the '90s, but Brooklyn is my adopted home these 30 years. I remain here for the very reasons you cite--a sense of community, with each block its own small town. The hipsters are tearing us apart here.
Natives??? Name a single neighborhood or building “people of color” built in Brooklyn?
@@muppoboy i think you’re choosing to miss the point, and I refuse to engage on useless banter when you have clearly chosen denial.
Its happening mostly downtown when the. BROOKLYN NETS. CAME. IT WAS OVER FOR DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN....NOW THERE MOVING TOWARDS EAST FLATBUSH. SMH
@@Militantreturns BTW, the second time I was forced to move, after I got priced out of Williamsburg, occurred when the Barkley Center went up two blocks away. So I'm no fan of the Nets.
My Sicilian Grandparents bought homes in Brooklyn, 1930's to 1960's. my Aunt, my grandmother's sister lived in Brooklyn until she and her husband died, they raised my father. Crazy that people are being pushed out now.
Great episode. Thanks
Many thanks for this video!
Absolutely fantastic segment!
Thank you for this. I felt some hope for the future (seeing that there are caring smart people advocating for change) in a subject that I have been feeling hopeless on lately. I am disabled and therefore will rent on a fixed and small income for the rest of my life, and I am wondering how as rent prices are drastically increasing. A family member left Brooklyn in June 2022, and out of curiosity they looked up the listing of the apartment that they had just left and the rent was 75% more that they had been paying.
Being Native American, we can relate to our African American community. On our "Reservations", where we were placed. We cannot "own" a particular parcel of land on these Reservations by the Government, we can only apply for a "Home site lease". We don't have many options for building a permanent home on these leases.
How does that work? Doesn't the tribe own the land? Or is it where the government is letting the tribe have the land but they don't own it?
Trevor The daily show I’m sad that you’re leaving the show.This topic is very emotional but right on point I love everybody on panel speaking the truth that’s one thing about the daily show your speak the truth .💯💯💯✌🏾☝🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾.
Real talk thank you 👍👍
I'm From Brooklyn.. Born in S.I., lived in all 5 boroughs... Now in the Bronx.. I 💘 🗽
I don't know where to start on these issues but Mrs.Hemingway and Mr. Shiffman's insight touched on every topic that can revitalize our neighborhoods in NYC in the best way possible. I'm a Bronx boy and have live through it all in the 70's and 90's and a senior now with a little different take on a different gentrification, where low-income housing is brought to a well-established neighborhood and has brought down the price of homes in the area, crime and drugs have risen where there was little to no crime, and this becomes a burden to those who have invested in this community, I would like to know your take on this as this is the other side of the coin where hard working Americans such as myself have had to face. Love you guys and your views and would like nothing better than to invite you to my home for lunch and take a tour of my neighborhood.
I’m so sad to hear this about my hometown. While I moved away decades ago, I will ALWAYS be a “Brooklyn Girl”. It is my dream to go back and make it home again someday. I loved growing up there and all that I experienced living in the borough. Please, please Brooklyn don’t ever change.
Great discussion! I love the topic and learnt so much from this discussion. In the future I would love to see a so-called Hispanic from these communities involved in the discussion.
People don’t realize how intelligent and brilliant Roy Wood Jr. really is, I appreciate your focus on this issue.
Thanks so much. This talk was so informative!
Yup! We always had block parties!!!! We had the pizza place on our block and a Chinese food place, my Mom was the manager of the laundry matt!!! All of that is gone!!
The irony is that artists and musicians are often the leading edge of gentrification
I've seen this all my life, from Montreal to Brooklyn and beyond. The artists and the dancers are attracted to the funky old neighborhoods with reasonable rents and as the years go by the fixer-uppers with more means are coming in to gentrify. The shoemaker and the tobacconist become coffee bars and patisseries and sushi spots..
Great topic✅
I'm flabbergasted at the guy at 12:43 that is absolutely CLUELESS to the fact that everything he asked for was right there.
Yeah... critical thinking skills or even common sense is on the decline
Everyone went after the guy, but isn't our goal to have better grocery stores and food options in these communities?
@@kevinm.1565 You can do both...smh... You can recognize that that guy is brain dead while still trying to improve the community and eliminate food deserts.
The thing is he's looking for Kroger's & there's never been a Kroger. We have C-town, key food, stop & shop & other grocery stores.
@@kevinm.1565 New York city, and specifically Brooklyn has those things. But the authenticity about Brooklyn has always been about "neighborhood." When you want to go grocery shopping you can travel and do that, but if you want to just run out and get something quick (e.g. eggs, butter or even pizza, you can literally "walk" to the corner and get it.
A lot of people only have the experience of coming from gated communities or an HOA property, and have no clue about life in a bustling city with a plethora of small businesses.
Thank you - sharing with Bay Area!
We need more videos like this.
Sadly it’s happening in my area. Worcester Ma Boston is bleeding into worcester and just pushing us all out and we can’t afford it here anymore and I’ve lived here since I was 3 months old. It’s heartbreaking .
17:25 I did some work for a property developer and I always thought that I should have that tattooed on my forehead.
They, sincerely, think they're just smarter than the ex-homeowners and are helping with the housing deficit. (as if selling a house for 3x what they paid for was of any help)
Trying to explain that they're the problem doesn't, they can't see it.
👏👏👏 great segment, thank you all
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I'm originally from Astoria Queens, this happened to us. We were building a better community and before anybody realized it everyone who rented was priced out. Families that lived there for generations were pushed out. The people that moved in are awful. Spoiled brats who looked down on us. It was disgusting.
Astoria got gentrified because its close to park ave. Futhermore. Long Island city. Needed to be developed it was baron alot of empty space
@@Militantreturns first off Astoria is in Queens, Park Avenue is in Manhattan, so you don't know what you're talking about. Second long island city was a mess, does that mean that people who lived there for generations should lose their homes to a bunch of spoiled brats? Don't talk about my home like you know anything.
Yea! Don't Brooklyn my Queens!!! 😡
Thanks for the truth..
Thaank You!
Give them a raise
I'm a white 72 year old.I grew up in a lower middle class neighborhood. My parents purchased a 4200 sq foot house in 1959 for $9,000 and sold it in 1968 for $14,000. Our home is now valued at $1,600,000. There is no way we could afford that house if we wanted it today.
no one cares ... this is virtually everywhere
No one from Brooklyn talks with Brooklyn ease anymore either, I miss that
Thank you!
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thank you for your show thank you lady for speaking ur voice ppl should be be free to where thay want props
Drink a shot everytime she says "rabbit hole" 😆🥃
This is what you got out of this?